Great video. Congrats on the sale. I was warned about this exact damage from another Mini R53 owner. interesting to see the actual damage. I have purchased four Mini R53 through Copart - first one the power steering pump exploded and the car caught on fire as I was driving it. The next two were flips - one, a 2003, was super easy took a few weeks, the other needed more work where ai was elbow deep into the engine to replace a head gasket - previous owner went to a non Mini garage and they broke one of the plastic cooling lines and he over heated the car. First head gasket repair and it went perfectly. Saved myself $1,500 over having a shop do the repair. Sold that in the first few months of COVID lock down so sold it for less but still eked out a decent profit. I am installing all four adjustable rear control arms in my current 2006 R53 next week. This one is the keeper…
Good job. On to the next one....
Great video. Congrats on the sale. I was warned about this exact damage from another Mini R53 owner. interesting to see the actual damage. I have purchased four Mini R53 through Copart - first one the power steering pump exploded and the car caught on fire as I was driving it. The next two were flips - one, a 2003, was super easy took a few weeks, the other needed more work where ai was elbow deep into the engine to replace a head gasket - previous owner went to a non Mini garage and they broke one of the plastic cooling lines and he over heated the car. First head gasket repair and it went perfectly. Saved myself $1,500 over having a shop do the repair. Sold that in the first few months of COVID lock down so sold it for less but still eked out a decent profit. I am installing all four adjustable rear control arms in my current 2006 R53 next week. This one is the keeper…
Copart did that with both my previous minis. #Forklifts